Ep. 307: The Epstein Saga Returns (2/2/26)

0:00Welcome back to Highly Respected, I'm your host, Scott Greer, and today we're going to have another fantastic and incredible episode for you guys. So sit back and enjoy, and today the first topic is going to be on the latest batch of Epstein files released, apparently they released all of them over the weekend, so everyone's been trawling through them to find all the juicy details that were being hidden from the public. So we're going to be discussing that as I got three questions about it. I got one from Nitro, one from KMAX, and one from Arm Day Enjoyer. So we got a lot of questions about it, so we're going to be going over that as our first thing and my thoughts on it. And this is bound to be the number one new story going on in the according to the internet.

1:00We've got a lot going on, we've got Iran, we've got a Venezuela, we've got Greenland, we've got the ice rates, we've got the whole siege of Minneapolis still going on, depending on your perspective, there's a lot going on in the world. We're not going on in the world in the country, but all that will be put aside to focus on Epstein, and that's just the nature of the internet, especially with the internet. How much ordinary people care about this is a matter of debate. People are glued into this. The nightly news program, so like ABC, NBC, CBS, do cover it. I remember going to the gym, that's the only time I ever see this stuff, and they would cover it. CNN's front page is covering it. And a lot of liberals are into this. I've talked to relatives about who are really engaged in Epstein, and they all think that Donald Trump raped young girls, and they all think that.

2:01And there's these unsubstantiated rumors already carried out in the files. And I think the files show why Trump didn't want to release them, as they had all these insane allegations, as I've been saying ever since this became a major problem for Trump last summer. I was saying, the reason why I didn't want to release this is because it would be like the Russia Gate stuff, is that it would contain all these wild accusations against them that are not true, that didn't occur, just like the P tape with the Russia Gate allegations and that Putin is controlling him, that this would come out in the Epstein stuff. And sure enough, it did, because there's a completely unsubstantiated bullshit claim that he had sexual relations with a minor that were investigated and turned out to not be true. But there, of course, going to line up those allegations in there, and it was very clear in that case that they were pursuing against Epstein in 2019 that the federal prosecutor was going to try to make an anti-Trump angle. That was in the first term, pretty much every government official tried his hardest, his

3:04or her hardest, to under-mind Trump, to attack Trump in any way they saw fit, which is very different from the second term. And they all love these opportunities, whether it's been men and all the people that are involved in the Ukraine impeachment saga to 2020 with a response to BLM and the defense department basically siding with BLM over Trump. You know, they were always looking for any opportunity to go after Trump and undermine them. And that was the case with Epstein. And I knew this stuff was going to be in there and I knew that's why Trump didn't want to do this and there's that. And it's really the right got this, the most blown up in their face. I know a lot of people were like, this is why we need to give up on Trump. You know, the huge Canadian right wing movement of their tidy social clubs that are going to get that are not going to exist in five years. But don't worry, we've really got to care more about them than our own country.

4:05That's why we need Obama back so we can ensure that conservatives can win office again. Are there major white national groups or whatever are going to do this? I have zero tolerance for any claims that there's a Canadian right there is no Canadian right. But we're getting these claims and all these people like we need to cut ties with MAGA. We are going our own way. It's like we're done with a movement that has taken power in a country because of these unsubstantiated bullshit claims in the Epstein files about Trump that are not true. There's all their stuff in there that is interesting. But the most interesting thing is the person who's most embarrassed by the latest batch of Epstein files is none other than Elon Musk and this is well deserved for him to be humiliated by this. I've gone back to being okay, it's important to have Elon on our side. He's no longer trying to act like he's the leader of the right or pretending he's that

5:05charismatic. He's more of just a guy who provides financial support for the right and also he, you know, allowing extra free speech has been a huge advance for us. At the same time, he is not the most likeable person and he is responsible for making Epstein a thing because when he had a spat with Trump and on his ketamine bitch, he then claimed that Trump is in the Epstein files. He is. But his stuff is bullshit. Meanwhile, Epstein is begging Epstein to come to his island and Musk is like, uh, this guy's late. We do not want him coming to our island. He's like, oh, please invite me for the wildest parties you have. And now he's just like completely bullshit. He's like, I refuse at all times. I'm going to sue and it's, you know, you're reading the New York Times article. It's like, uh, he clearly did not refuse. He was like begging to go. And so it's complete.

6:06It is, it is a, it's very, it's a good illustration of how the right is to interact with this. Is that the people most eager to, to have the Epstein files out there. It has just embarrassed themselves because damn, Bongino, all these idiots got in the administration. They were promising this to their voters. They're like, this is so important. We're going to get the Epstein files. Everyone had pretty much forgotten about Epstein and the Epstein files. I mean, he was still a meme, not that important, but all these Trump ad beneficials were like, we're going to get in there. We're going to release them because we're going to show all the Democrats are in cahoots with the pedophiles. You know, they're, you know, they're obsessed. They're subscribing to critical pedo theory. They think the Democrats are petos and they're going to want to expose this. And then they get in there. They see the files like, oh, it makes a lot of bullshit claims against Trump and other people. And also it makes Elon Musk look bad. Yeah, I guess we're not going to release this.

7:07And also it doesn't show anything that we wanted to show. Like the only thing that like MAGA influencers, like the really hardcore I've found is that like Zoron's mom had some type of interactions with Epstein. Anything else is like nothing, it's not a political goal for us. It is more embarrassed MAGA over this thing and embarrassed Elon. But it is very typical that Elon who is out of all people, the most responsible for making Elon or not Elon, but Epstein a thing again because he alleged that Trump is a pedophile of his in the Epstein files and it turned out like actually the stuff about Elon is more damning and a lot more pathetic than the stuff about Trump, but he completely forgot. You know, he just didn't, he pretended that he's not in there and it's not going to be released. And then he's been the fervent advocate of it. And he's even saying it's like, I've been more responsible for this than anyone. Yeah, you have.

8:07And look at how much of a moron you are for this. Like this is embarrassed you undermine your own cause and everyone's going to be making fun of you for the rest of your life for this. But you didn't, people didn't think because they all thought like, oh, it's only going to be my enemies in there. I'm going to be, we're going to completely destroy the democratic party once we release the Epstein files. And then we see this stuff and, you know, we don't get that. We just see a lot of funny things like Larry Summers having zero game, you know, or not so much funny stuff. And it was like Epstein just going off on Goyum and a lot of other interesting viewpoints he has on this. I mean, his internal or his private views that he would have. I mean, that is interesting and also connections to other wealthy people that weren't known about, but it's not quite the smoking gun we wanted. And this should have been, it should have been clear to people, but it was most demanded by Magasphere and now all these people were like, we're turning on Maga.

9:11We're now going to in order to have a far right movement, we're going to vote Democrat. We're going to get a center left government and power and we're going to get our true right winger like Barack Obama who deported way more people than Trump, you know, he was more of a fascist than Trump, I guess. And we're going to have, we're going to have complete right wing victory once the Democrats get in power. That's really the takeaway from it and and that with the matter, but this stuff is going to get out there. I don't think it's going to matter that much electorally, Democrats use it to needle Trump and the Republicans. I mean, they finally released it, you know, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Massey. I mean, Massey's going to make it the whole centerpiece of his primary battle, but I don't know how much that's going to help them as voters are aware of it and are seeing this on the news, but in terms of like impact to their vote, not really.

10:11And it's also you don't have that and we want this with all, when they released the JFK files, they wanted like CI memorandum, we did it or massage did it and like big bold letters. And that didn't happen. You know, it's like we didn't get any more of the story from the JFK, the release of the files than we did before, there's just a lot of end to old intel from the early 60s. It's the same with this. We don't have the smoking gun saying everyone in power is a part of my pedophile network and I control all the parties, you know, you don't really have that smoking gun for there, but instead now all these people are going to believe the bullshit allegations against Trump and these are going to go out there in the same way that, you know, people always believe this stuff. It's the same with Russia gate stuff. So it was another Russia gate for Trump, but it's why you should never promise things that you think that are for your audience and then it just blows up in your face.

11:12But it is a part of this matter with the internet politics, the conspiratorial populism is the beating heart of internet politics conspiracies matter more than any other issue. Whether you're right or left, you know, the laugh might say socialism or whatever is their main thing. And for the right, they might say white identity, but all of that will be put aside in favor of conspiracies and conspiracies are a lot simpler, a lot more inclusive to getting a bigger audience. Just pits evil elites against the good people. It's, you know, it allowed to make sure that it tells the audience that there's somebody in control. We just need to replace those bad people in control. Put good people in control there and, you know, it just simplifies things. It's us. It's a clear us versus them. And the them is a tiny cabal of people who are really bad and the us is that all the masses of people who are good, noble and just want true democracy.

12:15And so that's why it's a very appealing message, you know, you can be any race, any religion, any gender, and you can be in a belief in conspiratorial populism. And, you know, the exact details are different for the right and left, but conspiracies are the most important thing because you get the largest audience. They're more exciting than, you know, boring analysis of what's going on and structural explanations or whatever. So people get into this stuff and it's bound that like Epstein was going to be there because there's pedophilia, there's an X Israel angle, there's billionaire angle, there's politician. So it's got all this and it's got a very, you know, well, like a better term, a very interesting person at the end of, I mean, like Epstein, you just can't stop reading about this guy. This guy is, you know, he is a, there's a mystery around him like, how do you make his money? So there's a lot of different elements and that's going to get people more interested than even something like immigration.

13:17But for average voters, when they're going to the ballot box, they still select for boring mundane issues, you know, taxes, sometimes immigration like in the 2012 for election economy. That's really what they vote for, healthcare, conspiracies, you know, there, there's not going to be a way for them to vote on like, you know, do you support pedophiles still ruling the government? Yes or no, I don't think that ballot initiative is going to be on there, but, you know, this is how things go. So I'm not surprised by the response. I don't think it's like with last summer, you know, people make a big history like this changes everything. People eventually moved on. People have a goldfish brain and they just move on to other thing that you move on to and it's even with ours, even with the internet, you know, who people probably should have longer memories because they're more, they're consuming news and information at a higher

14:18level than the average normie. They still move on. They chase another dopamine rush, you know, there'll be a new controversy to fight over, a new hysteria to whip themselves off into a new thing to say. We're done with Magga. We're forming an independent right that ensures Democrats win or whatever, or because I see this in Britain or the Labor Party or the Liberals in Canada, maybe they're going to vote for the social Democrats in Germany. I'm not sure yet who they're going to vote for, but I'm sure whatever will be extremely based party that they'll vote for. And so I don't know, that's like those people aren't really registering in votes in terms of major voter demographic, but that's it. But I think it does, the one thing it is going to have a problem with, I guess, for long-term political reunifications is that is another factor discouraging young men for voting for Trump or wanting to vote for Republican young men, you know, under 30, you know, whatever

15:21news consumption they're getting, if they're getting to the broadcasters, the broadcasters really care about this. And this is going to just further along. I think it's primarily economic, but I think Epstein, some of the Israel stuff is pushing them away. Also, the deportations, which I have to argue this all the time with people on the Internet who are like, actually, all the young men are upset that they haven't deported 10 million people. That's clearly bullshit. You can see that from polling and you can see that from the people they actually listen to, all the broadcasters, all the broadcasters, even the ones who are wanting more deportations are complaining about it, are complaining about the number. Like, Tim Dillon is both trying to, you know, have his cake and eat it too. He's like, we're not deporting enough, but it's really awful what's happening in Minneapolis. And so that all the guys who are there listening to, but it's like, Angie Schultz, Theo Vaughn, Joe Rogan, these types, they're all not down with the massive deportations. But with our side, it's like, he won the election because there's this huge supply of right-wing

16:23young men who wanted 100 million deported. And, you know, apparently, these guys, the number of the millions, and now they're turning on Trump to vote Democrat, I guess, but that's just not true. Those guys, a lot of those guys were not, didn't, made a big noise about not voting for Trump in 2024, or they voted for Trump and they want more deportations, but, you know, they're not representative of the general, of even the young men who voted for Trump. The young men have voted for Trump for mostly Fandual Americans, not right-wing, super reactionary guys. And the Fandual Americans, they are losing a lot of their enthusiasm for Trump primarily for the economy, but the issues that also going along with some of the secondary issues of Epstein is real and the deportations. But from the opposite end of what people on Twitter are complaining about from the deportations,

17:23anything they're deporting too many. And every poll shows that. Every single poll shows that an overwhelming majority of people under 30 think that they're deporting too many and actually don't like the idea of deporting illegals. So it's just a nonsense thing that our side only makes up and pretends that X is the only polling you need to rely on, even though most of a lot of people aren't Americans, aren't even real humans. So that's that. So that's one political ramification. The second political ramification is for Steve Bannon. Bannon is planning to run as the online candidate, our anti-establishment candidate, and the Republican primary. He's getting a lot of support from a number of right-wing influencers who are not that fond of Trump. And he wants to run as I got. The problem is that he has the most direct connection to Epstein out of all these people. More than Trump, more than Elon, more than anyone. He didn't go to Olsen James, but he's trying to rehabilitate him in 2019.

18:24And that's going to be a big problem because one of the core issues that's going to be animating the anti-Trump anti-establishment force within the GOP. And it doesn't have that much support. If you look at the polling for Fishback and Casey Puch, those guys have less than 5% support in their primates. Now they can get a lot of attention. I mean, Fishback's getting a ton of attention because he's a much more interesting figure than Byron Donald's, but among actual voters, no one's really backing him. So somebody like that can run in 2024, especially our 2028, like Bannon, who's very media savvy, has a lot of charisma. They can get a lot of attention and promote their issues, even if they don't resonate that much with voters. But Bannon's going to have a lot of problems unifying that base when he has his direct connection to Epstein. And this is going to be a huge thing for those people who would be up for that type of candidate.

19:26And I do think you're going to have this anti-Trump candidate to maybe they'll claim they're from the right. I don't know if mass or MTG would be fully for the right. I think they would just be an all-purpose anti-Trump candidate. One day MTG would be complaining he's not deporting anyone. The next day, she says deportations are immoral. She has no real political compass, except for anti-Trump. But that's the same with a lot of people who this stupid term post-write, who are now like anti-Trump. They have no coherent ideology. It's just the only thing that's coherent about them is being anti-Trump. So some days they'll complain that Trump is insufficiently right-wing. Other days they'll say that he's too right-wing, so it's all depending on the day. But Bannon would probably have a coherent, consistent campaign much more so than I think Massie. Massie would try to run from a libertarian angle, which is not really what a lot of those guys want. MTG would just be all over the place and a lot of important people or influencers that

20:30we need to support or don't like her for obvious reasons. But I think that's going to be a problem for Bannon. This Epstein sub is going to probably be a major problem for his campaign, because one of the things he's going to be talking about is probably that the audience for him or that base of support is to talk about Epstein, and it's going to be very difficult for him to do so. So those are the two political ramifications. I do think that it will encourage our further dampened enthusiasm for Trump among young men, and I think it will cause problems for Bannon's 2028 campaign. I don't think Bannon's going to win in 2028, but he can make the primary that is. But I do think he can make a lot of noise and push certain issues to the forefront and make himself known. But I think if he's going to run, he's going to in that lane that he wants to set himself

21:33up as he's going to have issues with Epstein. So that is it. That's my take on the latest rep scene. Saga, I have an article on conspiratorial populism coming out tomorrow and we'll discuss this more. So we've got a lot of Minneapolis questions or Minnesota questions going on. A lot of them are about who's winning. So with Gillis and Joy are asked me about Ezra Clients and your Times article about the direction of the admin seems to be claiming that Minnesota was a complete loss for Trump, given that he's generally a bit more level headed as far as mainstream lives go. Is he just coping really hard with his take? I don't think it's really coping so much because it is per proven a problem. I don't think it's like this tremendous loss for Trump that a lot of our side and liberals have tried to claim, but it is the Minneapolis thing has pushed the country into wanting and

22:40to be more open up, abolishing ice. Now on the individual level of the Minneapolis and they're still carrying out the raids, they're now getting local law enforcement to cooperate with them and deal with Antifa. And it's they came up with the best resolution in the situation because they need to get the public attention off Minneapolis because with the public attention on it, it's creating more opposition towards the deportations and more support for abolishing ice. And you could see that at the Grammys last night where pretty much it was a whole anti-Israeli. They all wore ice out pens, even someone like Justin Bieber who has a more conservative reputation or I just remember that he's even been open to supporting Republican candidates. He had an ice out pen, bad bunny went out there and went on a whole anti-ice rant and all of them were just extremely anti-ice. And it felt like something from the 2010s at that.

23:43This did not seem like a part of the vibe change or the apolitical vibe change. This is a highly politically charged event where they're all rallying behind the message of abolish ice. And you can see the polls that this is more of an open, more people are open endorsing this and more Democrats are open into abolishing ice. Defunding ice is the standard democratic position. Now they think that they should, I think the majority of them are democratic lawmakers think it should be kept around at some form but defunded and truncated. But abolishing ice now has a lot of energy and force behind it in a way that it didn't before. And that's a long-term problem for Trump. And it's also giving them a message for Democrats to run on 2026. Which it looked like after the defeat in 2024 that they were going to all run away from open borders and the extreme immigration message that they had in the binding years.

24:47But now they're going to go back to embracing it because they see that their voters demand this. And a lot of the more of the public is opposed to ice than they were before, an immigration enforcement. So Bud Trump didn't also didn't back down from this, from this matter. He kept up with it, he stuck with it. And I think in that, him sticking with it and not completely caving, not completely caving on the deportations is not that. But I think with the general public, it is made, the Minneapolis operations is probably and for the 2026, I do think that there is going to be less support for the mass deportations than there was when he was coming into office. And I think this, the thing is, is like, as I always argue, is like, damn public opinion. Like, doesn't matter.

25:47Like public opinion was never going to be behind these deportations. I was predicting this in 2024 that, once as we got in office and we started carrying this out, people would get a week stomachs and be like, oh, no, think about the poor migrants. They all, that was baked in the cake. It was bound to happen. And you just have to go with it. This is one of the things as long, but that's why everything else you should cake in the public opinion. You shouldn't do crazy things on the economy. You should keep a good economy rolling. As long as you just a good economy, people will generally accept what you're about. But that's problems with the economy, maybe being seen is not too strong. It might improve over these years and might help Republicans in the midterms, but the deportations are happening. But you know, the one thing with the right is the right is once again, you know, predicting it's like, oh, this is dumb. Just go out to the employers and this is so inhumane and petty sadism.

26:49The entire right was demanding Trump put Minneapolis under siege when the fraud stories came out. They were all and they're like, they're going to do nothing, doing nothing, doing nothing. You're doing nothing. And then they do something and then they're like, that's not the thing you should have done. That's that. You actually should have done nothing. That's why it's a dangerous move for the, as we learn from the first segment, there is a problem with the one thing with the Trump administration is that contrary to what the online right believes, it's actually doing a whole lot of what the online right wants. The problem is the problem is that a lot of voters don't like this. And to the online right is never satisfied. It's like a spoiled child that they get everything they want of the birthday, but then they forget one toy and then they throw a complete fit and call their parents like they hate them and stuff and start stopping and have a whole major fit. And that's basically what the online right does all the time is that we demand something for the administration.

27:49The administration generally does it. And then we say that it's either unsatisfactory way that the didn't is like, if I was doing this and it would have been a lot better and there's that and then they can fully change your mind because it's like a, it's like a BPD woman. That is the standard mentality of the online right. It's a BPD woman that changes her mind all the time and freaks out. It's always prone to hysterics and completely forgets about what she was arguing for just a week ago. And that's really what was happening with Minneapolis is they demanded a huge ice presence there to go after the Somalis to go after migrants. The Trump administration does it and then, you know, this is a huge antifa stronghold. Leftists start violently interfering with ice immigration enforcement. They take action and response. And now the whole right pretends they did not demand for these ice raids and that they're all theater and spectacle and then pretends that you can all, you can pick up 100 million

28:50migrants at the secret migrant hangout and some reservoir and just pick them up and take them with no one noticing and no one taking a cell phone video of it. So it was bound to happen. I think it's, I don't, I would not argue it's a complete loss for Trump, but I think doing this type of stuff, falling online rights advice on deportations, which is prone to change at a moment's notice, you know, maybe, maybe is not the best idea. So he could end up, I think it's not a complete loss for Trump. It depends on what happens through rest of the year. I think if they avoid any more shootings at these and during these ice raids, I think the public will start to ignore them and as the economy gets underway, starts rolling again. I think the public will just start to accept them and it won't last that long. I think as I want to say is that people, the public has the memory of a goldfish, people

29:54will be focused on a lot of other things in two months, as long as there's not shootings, ice shootings and other things are, he invokes the insurrection act, which is like the worst idea that can happen. This would, this would typify the online rights, a reaction to, to Trump, but they invoke the on insurrection act. It would be universally unpopular and would ensure that there's more attention paid to the ice raids and that more people are opposing deportations. And for the people demanding it would then be the loudest complainers about it because it doesn't go far enough or it's not being carried out in the exact way they have because then they see the public back outrage and they're like, they did this completely wrong. It's actually done to undermine insurrection act. So everyone would hate it and it would be extremely unpopular and it had to cap Trump's administration to ensure that there'd be a democratic landslide in 2026 and it would probably ensure that Democrats win big in 2028. But no, it would be happy for it with it.

30:54Everyone would hate it. And so that's why you probably should stop listening to the one thing is that I do worries that the online right is so schizophrenic and BPD about this stuff that eventually the administration is going to stop listening to us and just start looking at polls and follow that and that might not be in our interest. So that's my views on that. There's some more Minneapolis questions. Maybe Nitro had one. No, it's something. Oh, well, there's the fraud cases. He said Costco Frank asks, what do you see happening with the HHS fraud cases and Minneapolis and the significant chance of neuroduring nullification? If held today, you can make a safe bet on that. It seems like a good prospect as our seems like a big deal. According to Costco Frank, I think there is a lot of jury nullification with the more

31:58political cases. Like I think Don Lemon's case, there's not going to be a jury to find him guilty. I'd be extremely surprised if a jury found him guilty. I don't even think it's going to go to trial to be honest. There are for the protesters, where there's a stronger case against them than with the lemon, they, you know, they're already struggling to get a judge to hold the case. The judge is trying to throw it out. They're having to go through this whole ordeal. This can be very tough for them to prosecute Don Lemon and they, you know, even these gangbangers in Chicago, we're putting bounties on ICE and Border Patrol agents, juries found them not guilty. All the political cases they've done, this a DC with a guy who threw a sandwich at a federal law enforcement, you know, all their things that have happened, you know, they cannot it come e Latisha James, the really political cases they cannot make where they feel that it's a Trump administration punishing their political enemies. They have a tough time with, but the HHS fraud, the fact is, is like, even Walsh knows that's

33:04bad and has to condemn it. I don't, it's, there's still a chance that a jury might find them not guilty for purely political reasons, but I do think there's still the greater chance of finding guilty verdicts. There's still a greater chance of it than it should be in such a case. I mean, this is a clear crime. There's no, there's no real political motive. They committed a crime, they, they deserve the penalty for that. But they, that they would still find jurors who like, this is Trump racism going after noble Somalis who are working hard and we're entrepreneurs and they should do this. And it's bullshit, they've already, but I think the real thing is that they've already had convictions in this. A lot of them, a lot of these people, you know, they're clearly guilty, they'll take plea deals. I think it will be mostly convictions, but there could be one or two cases where jury

34:05finds them not guilty for political reasons. But I think the greater worry for jury nullification is the more political cases like against Don Lemon, like against these protesters in the church, like any antifa or anybody else that they arrest for pro interrupting immigration enforcement. I think that's the real problem, not so much this. So that's both a white belt and a black belt there. But that's my thoughts on that. Ken had questions about ice and all the things. I had a question about, I support ice and the officers who shot pretty with that being said, what exactly happened? Did they think he was holding a gun? Did he reach for his gun? I can't really make it on the video. I don't really know, either. I think there's two theories is one, they thought he was holding something that might be a gun and made a split second decision. And this guy had already been carrying a gun. It's unclear if it's a clip or someone's gun, one of the officers gun accent discharge and they thought it came from pretty. And maybe they thought that was holding once a gun and it's something there.

35:08I'm not quite sure what's the story, but it will come out in the case. I do think it was justified. I mean, he was clearly a resisting arrest. He had a gun, he had a gun, a two clips on him. He was clearly, and if you watch the clip from a week before, he was clearly attacking an ice vehicle and showing he was willing to commit violence. So I think in that case, he was still resisting arrest when they were arresting him and things like this happen when you come armed and resist arrest that, you know, your life could end. It was not like he was cooperating and then they executed him like that video, the clip, the AI image of them executing him is complete bullshit. That's not how it happened. They thought I think that there is something that occurred that prompted them to think that he was holding a daily weapon or firing a gun and they took lethal force against him. You know, you don't, you know, you don't bring, I, I'm like these second MEP was like, you

36:11don't bring a gun and two clips of ammunition to a protest where the purpose of for you is to confront law enforcement. You got to be smart because you're likely to get arrested and then police when they see a gun and they see this stuff on you, they might have just already shot him, but when they saw the gun and then you don't resist arrest because then they already think you're armed and might shoot them, you know, it's not being, it's not being very smart. We've got another question from Mark who asks, Trump's approval, I was generally gone down lately, which obviously is problematic for the midterms in 2028. How can he get us to prove up without cucking on stuff like ice or listening to it, right, wing proposals and what it'll go up over the years, well, I think just getting the economy rolling. I think that's one thing. Getting the economy rolling. I think it's just that he doesn't need, he obviously doesn't need to cuck on stuff like that. He needs to keep doing the ice raids and keep up the immigration policy. He needs to ask late.

37:12He just needs to avoid the high profile confrontations like we're sapping in Minneapolis. That's why it was good for him to have some type of agreement where then Walsh is taking the blame for this not Trump for that because he needs to get the public all not focused on the ice raids because if that becomes an issue for us in 2026 and then we seem to lose the midterms over it, the party is not going to take the correct interpretation of that. So I think it's just a matter of just getting the economy going, avoiding wars. Just that people need to feel comfort and stabilize and that there's a good status quo happening. I've got enough money for sports betting and to go into football games and things will calm down and to highlight the extremism on the left. I think if the public moves is not so much focused on ice raids but the Democrats are

38:16still campaigning on abolish ice that could be helped to Republicans because then they could show that they support open borders and they wanted all these terrible things and they can highlight all the criminals that they're deporting and the Democrats don't want these people. They don't want these pedophiles and murders and gang medias deported I think that will help. I think that will help the Republicans. His second question is what are your favorite example of instance not someone you like of someone in the political world who is a prominent political figure who completely fell off the radar like they never existed. I am in my opinion a good example of Denny Hassard, he was House Speaker for eight years and currently accused of pedophilia but I think he was convicted of pedophilia but no one for my son any side ever talks about him anymore which surprised me. He was brought about like he brings up the Nemitz thing where it's like does Denny Hassard ever get brought up in conspiracy theories and actual pedophiles became a powerful politician and had an old CIA director requesting leniency to judge because it's too old

39:17fashion and it's also rather you know it's a really messy story of like a lot of pedophiles you even see this a lot of immigrants who are deporting it's like they you know they're the 11-year-old daughter of some woman they're living with they then sexually abused with him he was I think he was like a wrestling coach and sexually abusing his standards it's the the Epstein stuff fits more within a movie you don't want to make a movie about Haster because it's like really gross and writing you know that's like the nature of a lot of the pedophiles like someone you know it's not some politician taking these 16-year-old prostitutes to some you know exotic location that's very rarely what happens you know that's not really what happens it's generally you know someone you know like a priest a coach teacher someone like that and it's people don't like discussing it's it's kind of the it's a it's a it's a disturbing aspect of human nature that people don't like for example that's one thing

40:21with it Haster but a lot of people you know I would say John Boehner this happens with every politician Boehner Paul Ryan well Newt Gingrich didn't disappear so I wouldn't put him in that but there's a ton of people who are super important I think you know Paul Ryan was extremely important for the right and the 2010s and for him to disappear off the stage does signal a lot for the right I think he is he's head of AEI still hold on I need a I need a check out he might I think he's still or no he's just a distinguished fellow visiting fellow I think he was briefly head for AEI but I think he's just now a fellow I'm not quite sure what Paul Ryan is up to at the moment uh actually I do we're gonna actually look this up hopefully he what's he's actually up to now and he is you know they're not even giving me what they're not even showing my boys doing

41:35oh he's just a lobbyist and doing like some private equity fun stuff yeah he I thought he there was talk about him heading up AEI but I guess he didn't do that so he was also on the board of Fox News but he was extremely important individual for what was the 2010s to conserve it as a Republican party he he defined it in many ways pre-Trump what the Republican party was pre-Trump the best definition was Paul Ryan and now he's not as talked about I talk about him lot because whenever I'm talking about pre-Trump conservators and I say Paul Ryan and Paul Ryan defines that so in terms of my favorite example I don't know if I'd use the term favorite but the example you utilize the most I would say Paul Ryan there's some other funny examples like Jeff Lake Jeff Lake all these reporters thought when he left the Senate you know because the Antide Trump they're like this is one of the most historical speeches of all time

42:35everyone is forgotten about Jeff Lake that's what's gonna happen to Marjorie Taylor Green as well all these people leave Congress they think they're gonna maintain their huge name recognition and reputation and still be an important person that all goes away when they leave Congress. New Gingrich is like one of the few examples of people who still maintain a level of importance but that was because he's a very gifted communicator and charismatic and was still involved in Republican politics and still going on Fox News that's not how you open for Marjorie Taylor Green ever when if Marjorie Taylor greens decides to run for president everyone's gonna be like who they're evolving if have forgotten about her but in any case that is my opinion on that we'll go to Nitro's other question he uh oh man sometimes the when I'm pulling up questions they took me all the way back to a long time ago he said what's your take on the recent 2020 electoral fraud cases I don't really have strong thoughts on it I'd have to see the case but I

43:37think this is gonna be another thing that's thrown out by a jury judge it's uh you know what it's in if it's in the county if they're holding these cases in the jurisdictions where this took place I mean these are pretty black districts they're gonna throw this stuff out there's no I don't think that these are gonna hold up but it's one of these things like Trump is very concerned with and also the online right wants some focus on and so they have to carry them out but um I don't I I have a feeling it's gonna be along in the same genre of prosecutions as Latisha James and James Comey it's nice that they're doing so I mean with Don Lemon this specific case the process is part of the punishment and it is signaling that we're gonna punish you with this is Doc lemon probably the most important person to publish punish no but Trump remembers him because he used to be on CNN and watch his show and got angry at him so he probably does care a lot more about this than Antifa and it's the same with the election fraud cases I mean there is a chance that

44:45they find some real smoking gun damning information and then the jury's throw it out in any case but it can show that there was more of the direct fraud than previously thought and we have evidence for that that could happen but um it's most likely just gonna end up like a Comey Latisha James thing arm day joyers second question today is a your opinion on the htb visa increase uh a lot of unlike a lot of other v says this is probably the least harmful one to do I don't think there's a huge rush of white people are wanting to be lawnmowers and uh maids and other things so and we don't really have automation meeting the demands we don't have robot lawnmowers and landscapers yet and robot maids quite yet now once we get robots this will be it but this isn't really taking jobs away from Americans I mean the jobs are taking away from

45:47or black Americans and generally the employers prefer immigrants now the point of these visas is you have to keep them strict this is why we need to end birthright citizenship because a lot of these people can come here on a guest worker visa and then they drop it they have an anchor baby and they stay permanently that we need to ensure that they can't do that and that's why you need to you have to strict is that they must go home after this v6 buyers you need to have more oversight and more restrictions about this I don't really support an increase this is back because I do think for a lot of industries even though this one is the least likely to be uh have a huge benefit from automation AI then a lot of others there's still you do need to wean off these these industries from the dependence on immigration and giving them an increase allows for that dependency to continue I think there are even though this is for a lot of others like agriculture agriculture there is more of that technology developing to where they don't

46:52need migrant fruit pickers anymore and it encourages them if you take away that dependency they're going to find other solutions for it and I think what the current Trump policy of scaring off the migrants and doing these raids it forces employers to come up with new solutions that will wean them all migrant dependency but I'm finally keeping it at the way it is I'm not the biggest fan of the increase even though I think that this is the industry's less subject to that less subject to benefits from automation AI than others this is also not like h1b and v6 and student v6 is where they're taking away spots and benefits from Americans that Americans actually want so there's that but I also do think you shouldn't reward their dependency but in terms of the things I'm not they're carrying it h1b v6 increase would be a huge problem but the good news is they're restricting

47:53it and decreasing it unlike what everyone else thinks is that they think that we're allowing a million h1b in this country and actually we're taking in the lowest number of h1b v6 in a very long time and it's much harder to get h1b v6 now than at any point in recent memory but you know these h1b's are actually jobs Americans want and we can hire Americans lawn mowers and the things that h2b's cover not so much but you still shouldn't reward that dependency to a degree I think keeping it the same or a slight increase is you know not that problematic but the one thing you could argue for this to go with my point is that Trump needs the economy to be doing well and if you know we're not having enough construction workers and there's you know people can't hire people to build the lawns they can't hire mades that's going to be that's not going to be good for people are going to be peeved about that I might encourage more democratic voters but it needs great oversight and

48:54restrictions to even occur but this is one of the these there is a hierarchy of v6 in immigration that is like diversity v6 chain migration h1b's refugees asylum seekers a lot of this stuff you need a drastic cuts and are generally not for a benefit there are a few that are less problematic like h2b v6 and so I don't think it's the worst thing in the world probably I think doubling it or what I think that's like a doubling that the price should have done should be not a smaller increase but it's not the end of the world let's go to gillis and jurors other question he he said you mentioned in that in in the IQ settlement from last Friday that America Europe are moving away from each other and it's likely to continue so my question is why does this need to be inevitable why is it not possible for both sides to restrict immigration or reject

49:55the liberal consensus but still see each other as part of a shared civilization given the white share of the global population drop continued drop doesn't it make sense for white majority countries to stick together well that's always been a problem for our countries is you know we had this message before where we want it's like we're going to have a unified white civilization and then we you're we all killed each other by the millions of where we want in a world we're two and we're always going to compete with each other it's that white solidarity is not in this is at a time when white solidarity was actually a something believed by elites both in American Europe and then it couldn't be there now a white solidarity is something weird or considered weird by people and it's something that's only shared by people online but even then they don't that doesn't work because every European is will immediately talk about 50 left 56 percent stupid Americans left American months immediately upon anything they don't like about America and

50:55a lot of and that prompts you know European bashing from Americans and other things I don't think white solidarity is enough to really create a sense of shared civilization no matter how much you'd want it I think the Trump administration's foreign policy strategy is trying to get these guys to have a shared path but even then it's like you know it wants them to be more independent it's like you're going to be responsible for your depends it's moving away from NATO which keeps us together and I think it's just that you know we've always had major differences between ourselves and if you don't have a shared enemy it's hard to maintain that sense of solidarity and Europeans a lot of Europeans viewed China as as a is friendlier to them than America you know the only shared enemy they've been able to come up with and I even mentioned this in my IQ supplement and this was this is not something new is that this shared enemy is Russia as the as the primitive east as they always

51:57saw the like Russia was not fully part of the West and they they liked the idea of inventing the West in in opposition to Europe because that it would exclude Russia and you can see that in today with the Ukraine war but I don't even think that's very productive for us to rally around so it's just natural we're gonna you know we've never really quite worked as a unified whole and I don't think white solidarity is enough to keep us there I mean yeah we want to restrict immigration but there's a lot of even there that's more of just a shared policy notion we we have different things going on and it's very hard for us to unite it's very hard for Europe to unite you know they they they've struggled with that and even their forming unification isn't really ideal to say the least so you can have you know there's like something beyond state identity there is a type of universal right wing identity or global right wing

53:01identity that's shared with Americans and Europeans and Canadians some Canadians and some Aussies and some Kiwis and others but it's in Africaners but you know that's not shared by the states and I don't think I don't know if that's going to take over any these comments I mean the closest thing to happening is MAGA and yet all these euro are at least the ones on Twitter are all wanting to be go full anti MAGA even though MAGA is the only like former government that has an interest in a kind of a global right wing identity so that's just the fact I mean I don't think we're going to be enemies but we are there are differences between American Europe and this is obvious to people we we should be allies but we're it's hard for us to be you know kind of a global unit a civilization state and I don't know if it's for the best of either America or Europe to try to continue on like that with what we've had with NATO and some of our

54:07other objectives I think we're going into different directions and that's fine but we can still be friends and still be allies but I think it's harder to maintain that type of global civilizational state into the 21st century let's see what we've got two questions from James yes and reference to your summer article do you think the 14th amendment allows a leftist administration more power than a conservative amendment seems to be the amendment that gives the right the most problems does the 14th hurt our side and help theirs more well it's just been a part of our side I mean they even interpreted the 14th amendment to help corporations back in back to the guild and age and afterwards the 14th amendment is just so to establish back we're not going to repeal the 14th amendment the real things we need to correct is the birthright citizenship thing which we even if the Supreme Court doesn't rule for our side I think it's a long-term objective for us to

55:12revise that I think we can revise that through legislation I think it's possible it's not impossible for us to do this over term I think if we you know highlight how the Chinese are exploiting this and this is a national security issue I think that could potentially help us revise that well the 14th amendment is kind of is really built into our society establishing equal equal citizenship it would be extremely unpopular for us to hurt our 14th amendment I think I mean oh historically yes but I mean we neutered it after reconstruction we you know we did we're able to have this great country despite the 14th amendment the real problems or what are the civil rights legislation of the 1960s I think that's a more viable goal to undermine and undercut and we can already see that with the Supreme Court you know potentially throwing out the voting rights a lot of the teeth of the voting rights amendment our voting rights act and I think we

56:21and also trumped throughout one of the quarter zones of the civil rights regime and revoking LBJ's executive order expanding in firm evaction or creating firm evaction so I think that's more honest I mean the 14th amendment you know it's just a part of our country it's it's like the 19th amendment I it's even more than the 19th amendment we are not going to veto repeal the 14th we're not going to we're not going to repeal the 19th amendment and even historically it changes you know we yes it establishes equal citizenship fully you know nationally but look at what the country was still doing for a hundred years after the 14th amendment so it's more of the civil rights well there's legislation and regime that's the problem which yes a lot of that is built up from the 14th amendment but we don't need to have to repeal the 14th amendment which is unlikely

57:23to ever happen I mean you would just have a completely new regime if that was even possible but I think you'd have you'd worry about a lot of other things I don't think the Constitution would be enough anymore if that occurred so you'd have bigger fish to fry but within the system that we're going to have which I think is going to we're going to likely to have for the rest of the century you're not going to overturn the 14th amendment but I think you can as we're seeing with a Trump administration you can take a sledgehammer to the civil rights regime and I don't think and you can do that without repealing the 14th amendment is the second question what is your opinion Brian O'Hara the big buff police chief of Minneapolis he's probably a shit lib buddy he looks like a guy a mental torment he knows to be slips on towing the line a bit for fray would fire him what's your read on him I don't really have the bigger read um I think it's just the fact that a lot of these police chiefs you know they're subject to civilian leadership of their of their city and state and this is always an issue that I have because people would be like we

58:26need a ban police because this is people thankfully have not been on this kick for a while but after 2020 there was this huge anti-police surge and like fuck the pigs we need a ban police and this is how a lot of libertarians got an audience within our side is by being anti-police and then they would point to this guy is like they'd arrest people well the problem is the civil is the leadership not police and then like they shouldn't follow orders it's like well you follow your boss are you calling him a cuck and a racetrater and I don't think so so you know it was a lot of these guys were complaining about police you know once in a while carrying out political arrest and ignoring that they're primarily focused on crime and also focusing on the most liberal cities to argue that's why we need to eliminate police in red areas to make this case and you know they follow the leadership I think you know to make that position you have to be

59:28a pretty political person so he knows what he's doing but he's just following orders and that's the most I can say about him now we've got pay-per-view pay-per-view he's got two questions he said this got overshadowed by the shooting last week but data came in that the U.S. murder rate is the lowest it has ever been since 1900 how much of this is due to desire of a return to law and order in the largest U.S. cities demographics and our minorities fearful the Trump and then dropping the sledgehammer on them some of it is I think Trump has been deporting a lot of the criminal migrants a lot of these guys have been just going home some of that is it but it's a it's following a historical trend I think 2020 and 2021 were aberrations where they just allow complete lawlessness and we allow black use to do whatever they wanted and that's why we had a huge upsurge of murders and for those two years and and continuing in 2022 but it's continuing on a dramatic it's primarily demographics it's actually for race-realist reasons as I argued in

1:00:30article I think I wrote last year is that a lot of the black populations being pushed out of these major metropolitan areas from both gentrification and migrants moving into these areas they're more dispersed than they were and you know the counties that they're in like Prince George's county and DC it's not nice county but they do commit less crime there than when they're packed in to say like anacostia elsewhere so it's not the nicest are but they're getting pushed out into more outlying areas there's also a population drop among them is that there are far fewer black youths and young black men and you know and a lot of them are native born of black Americans then there was in the 70s and 80s and 90s some of that is due to abortions some of that is just other population trends that are happening and their their birth rate is plummeting as well is continuing to plummet so there's fewer of them I think it's also that we have restored a

1:01:32lot of these sensible prime policies they even restored them at Baltimore and they've seen a crime drop it's also that Trump sending out a national guard into Memphis and DC reduced the murder rate you know it just came out that DC its first murder happened I think on the 21st and it hadn't been for a very long time where there had not been a murder within the first 10 days of the new year and it was within the first 20 some days so murder is going to continue to go down I know there's some there is there was a degree at the high point of the crime surge following George Floyd that police departments were trying to hide murs but it's very hard to hide murs it's much easier to hide like robberies and even some assaults but when you have a body and there's only a few you can contain as an acts as claim as an accident the vast majority of them are not being recounted as something else they're be counted as murders there was examples from DC where they were

1:02:36counting up but that's not causing this there's a long-term race-realist reason that we're having pure we're having fewer MBAs far fewer black youth walking around the cities a lot of that population being pushed out in the outlying areas around the cities where they commit less crime and we're also a lot of the newer immigrant populations that are taking over their neighborhoods white gentrifiers obviously commit a lot less crime his banks do commit more crime than we claim because a lot of their crime is being counted as white like with Maduro is now being claimed as a white man even though he might be wider than a lot of these like Dominican's their count as white in our in our prisons but they're not committing as many as much crime as blacks and Asians do not commit anywhere near the amount of crime as blacks and also whites themselves commit far less crime than they did in the past like there is not you know you don't really have this violent young white

1:03:41male demographic anymore and I think in the 70s and 60s there were a lot you know not as much as people would think but there were like whites who would kill each other there's not really that much anymore then we are a much less violent of demographic than we were 40-50 years ago and I think that's also a reason for the murder drop somewhat part of it but it's also to go back to my story I recommend reading my article that a road last year of the race realist reasons for a crime drop to learn about this and so there's a couple of different factors so some of that is all combination but the primary reason is demographics a second question when it comes to the right why can't we just lie to the normies more often when campaigning just copy out Trump dealt with project 2025 attack ads for junior democrats campaign on affordability and are now totally focused on terraforming the state to being permanently blue I think we already do that I mean we

1:04:42it's not like we campaign on what the online right is telling us about like suspending the constitution invoking the insurrection act we do campaign on nuts and bolts issues so I don't think that we we don't do this I think it's just a matter that we have a disadvantage in that the media will is not on our side and it's less willing to play along with our lies then are not I don't even think their lies with are framing than they are with the then then the democrats lies you know it's like they're like oh well mom Donnie's focused on real issues and democrats are focused on real issues and then once they get power we see what happens I think we do do we are able to campaign to wear people on issues that people actually care about but a big issue is that a lot of our side doesn't allow that in the primary so the it ends up with some difficulties of that and as IQ he also requested an IQ supplement on

1:05:44rush limbaugh on his pact on the right as five year universities passing this month well we're all doing black history month stuff this month but we can possibly do a rush limbaugh IQ supplement in the future that would be a good IQ supplement and so let's see who else we got here do you have a normative asked a question he said what do you think is the cause for the recent universal precipitous fertility decline among third world peoples some are blaming tiktok which feels silly but I don't know if what could have changed in the last few years maybe COVID so it's the increased technology a lot more smart phones and stuff and I think it's also a lot of their young male population is leaving those areas to migrate a lot more of them so they're not around to impregnate women I think it's also some cases that we've been pumping you know birth control and prophylactives out and condoms and stuff out to them that they have that's had a dent

1:06:49but and also it is you know they've had a little slight increase in health but not much but I think a huge my own theory I mean there's a variety of reasons is that a lot of these young men are migrating and they're you know there's fewer young men to impregnate all these women and they're migrating to they're trying to migrate to the first world I think there is something that they hire cell phone access and so maybe they're too busy playing like candy crush or something to have sex and also there's more access to birth control methods that prevents it it's a variety factors I would have to really think on it for some other things I don't think it's COVID but I imagine that there are some other factors going on there that is decreasing the fertility rate

1:07:53now we've got a dollar bill on Thursday former Minnesota governor Zestie's been term made the bull claim that state should leave the union that the state should leave the union join canna has he lost his mind he's always been a nut job you shouldn't take Jesse Ventura very seriously he has not made a serious claim ever it was very surprising he ever became governor how he became governor is a really weird factor in American life which would probably be worth its own IQ supplement but Jesse Ventura has always been saying idiotic stuff like this ever since you know the 2000s this is in keeping with him you know he always you know I think he's probably got some CT and stuff so you should probably not care too much what Jesse Ventura has said but yes he has lost his mind but this happened about like 25 years ago new in the refugee asked happy groundhog day he said my question is of the four toss-up Senate elections Michigan North Carolina Maine and Georgia which do you think is most likely to fit the opposite party obviously

1:08:57Maine I think she might even face Graham Platner you know the guy with the tone cough tattoo but even then I think Collins has the most greatest chance of losing her seat than any else I think Republicans will probably keep North Carolina Georgia is going to be really tough I don't think any of those candidates have a real strong chance against against Oz off and Oz off is raising out is outstripping them and funding I think it's to be difficult I think Michigan is always been the toughest state of battleground state for Republicans to win and I think it's all going to be very tough for Republicans I don't think it's I think all these are potentials like I don't I would not say oh they're absolutely staying within that party that they have but I think out of them all of them it's definitely Maine I'd be very surprised those Susan Collins wins and so that is my opinion also New Hampshire could flip they got so new new going in there Trump just endorsed him but that'll be a very tough race I would put that as fifth on the list a list of seats to likely flip

1:10:03now we'll go to okay Rook if for some reason I missed you harass me and I will get you on for the mailbag his question is dirt back leftists are already misconstruing the files to say 2010s oh I should have gotten this at the beginning but that's okay we'll finish up on Epstein he said far wrong line content was of a sod conspiracy will this simply be forgotten or will become the new testament of dirt bag leftism following corpos pushing it pulled to destroy occupy Wall Street oh it's not just with the left the right is embracing it as well you know the the right stuff guys you know I'm seeing this so like it's all turning off the alt right was a Jewish conspiracy it's like well what the fuck are you hey kids like I've actually always been controlled by Jews there's a ton of right wingers are getting into this stuff as well because the right wingers like oh another reason to counter say to rightoids who I'm different from I'm not like those all the rightoids I'm gonna embrace everyone else that it disagrees with me and is not listening to my

1:11:05podcast is a Jewish plant and so the right love this theory as well this isn't just gonna be limited to the left this is gonna be a broad part of online politics so absolutely it's gonna be that the alt right is a is a masad conspiracy that is 100% gonna be thing I already see right wingers get into it but the differences between the dirt bag left and a lot of the right wing elements you know as I talked about last week in my based in theory lived hard in practice there are very minimal the differences these right wingers insist on loving Hitler while choppo trap house types do not do that so that's really the only difference between them at the moment and they'll get into this so but this would be a savage fact of politics and corporations pull pushing idea identity politics to shoy occupy washi that's also a huge belief among right wingers too they thought occupy washi does awesome it was gonna take down the one percent for based reasons and then

1:12:07the left got into identity politics forgetting that this was an inherent part of occupy washi from the beginning so yeah absolutely it'll it'll not be forgotten they're gonna be maintaining this for a long time because it it's a part of the conspiratorial populism that is the most popular element of internet politics and to claim that your opponents and rivals are controlled by shadowy forces particularly Israel is too tempting to give up people love this they relish this and that they finally have proof they're gonna be talking about this to the end of time so that is my take and that is it for a high respected for this wonderful cold Monday we'll be back with more great content for the rest of the week so be on lookout for that so until next time stay respected